Hoxie Feedyard – Kansas Factoids
- Kansas has four (4) congressional districts. #1 has 34 million acres in farmland with 2 1/2 million acres irrigated, #2 has 7 1/2 million acres in farmland with 56,000 acres irrigated, #3 has 217,000 acres in farmland with 3,500 acres irrigated, and #4 has 5 1/2 million acres in farmland with 105,000 acres irrigated
- The largest corn production in the history of Sheridan County was 16,789,000 bushels in 1998-for an average of 177 bpa. Other counties best years: Miami-1,590,000; Johnson-1,477,000; Anderson-2,600,000; Linn-1,008,000; Franklin-2,600,000; Dickinson-729,000; Douglas-2,994,000; Wyandotte-311,000; Leavenworth-2,454,000-all nine of these counties best corn productions add up to 15,763,000 bushels-still over 1 million bushels less than Sheridan county alone.
- Beef imports increased from 2.1 billion pounds in 1996 to roughly 3.3 billion pounds in 2004.
- Hoxie Feedyard shipped 100,000 head of cattle in 2004. This is about 2% of the State of Kansas' total fed cattle market.
- In 1964, Sheridan County produced only 30,000 bushels of corn off of 500 harvested acres; in 2003 the county grew 10,534,000 bushels off of 69,000 harvested acres. That's 60 bushels per acre v. 153 bushels per acre.
- The United States has raised over 10 billion bushels of corn in only 3-crop years-1994, 2003, and 2004. The USA has raised 9 to 10 billion bushels in only 7-crop years-1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001. Corn demand in 2004 is expected to be over 10 1/2 billion bushels.
- In 1910, the United States produced 2.8 billion bushels of corn with an average yield of 28 bushels per acre off of 102 million acres at an average price of $0.47 per bushel. In 2004 the USA is expected to product 11.74 billion bushels of corn with an average yield of 160 bushels per acre off of 73 million acres at an average price of $2.20 per bushel.
- If the United States grew as many acres of corn as it did in 1910 and it yielded the 160-bushel per acre average that was achieved in 2004, the USA would raise a whopping 16.3 billion bushels of corn.
- Kansas is expected to produce 415 million bushels of corn in the 2004-growing year. The USDA predicts that the nationwide corn production total will be 11.74 billion bushels. Kansas will represent about 3 1/2 percent of the national total; Sheridan County will represent about 1/10 of 1% of the national total.
- Sheridan County Kansas, where Hoxie Feedyard is located, produced 10,534,000 bushels of corn, 561,800 bushels of soybeans, and 4,836,000 bushels of wheat in 2003.
- Kansas's agricultural sales were nearly 9 billion dollars in 2002, that's about 4 1/2% of the national total.
- U.S. feeder cattle and calf supplies outside of feedlots are up 4% on January 1, 2005 from a year earlier.
- The U.S. imported a record 1.6 million head of feeder cattle and calves from Mexico during 2004.